Why did this bomb so bad?

Here are many experts on the work, I've chuckled a few times.

Everyone who liked "A Dame to Kill for", that's absolut legit. Sin city 2 was a highly entertaining movie. I liked the Pseudo Exploitation, the Black and White and the Noir style. People are bitching and crying because they always compare it with the first one. Of course the influence of the first one is in the second not as big. The innovations are mostly gone and became routine. Sin City 2 just follows the the receipe and the result is a solid Sequel.

I don't think the Film bombed due to the lack of Quality. We all know this movie will never win Oscars, but, as someone said before, it's still highly entertaining. I guess a big mistake was, like many people said before, the almost 9 year time gap between the movies. Bring the Sequel while the idea is still hot. The movie was planned for a release in 2007 or 2008. No one cares about Sin City anymore, as hard as it's sound. So it's common people will watch Guardians of the Galaxy which is, by the way, an optimistic movie compared to Sin City which is the extreme opposite. The Casual Moviegoer may have forgotten the first movie long ago.

Another problem is the weak marketing.

Another problem is also the Audience itself. Sin City is niche, we all know that, especially A Dame to Kill for. And the movie is simply not chronological. the chronological order, the Timeline, is even more complicated compared to the first movie. I guess that's the main problem so many people are confused about the movie. Many viewers getting distracted by a non chronological storytelling.

So, yeah, I guess the movie will find it's audience on DVD and Blu-ray. For me, I enjoyed A Dame to Kill for. A solid 7,5 for me. Oh, and before I forget to mention: Why the hate against Joseph Gordon-Levitt? I really like him as an actor, he is charismatic. I also love the new Storyline "The Long Bad Night". It's a unique story specially written for the movie. I kinda liked this idea simply because it's not based on the Graphic Novels. Since we may never see a new Sin City Volume again, that's the closest what we can get from Miller when it comes to new material.

Bad writing with the plotholes and inconsistencies in the stories

Not promoted enough.

Not getting Clive Owen to come back (Sorry, Brolin SUCKED as post-surgery Dwight)

Robert taking too fu**ing long to make this. By the time, it came out, a lot of people stopped caring.

I didn't even realize this already came out...lol.

The lack of advertising probably didn't help. The first one was OK but it probably had a cult following more than anything else, by the people who are fans of the comic.

Advertising didn't help, I didn't even know it came out.

For me to rate a movie 1 star, means there was truly nothing redeemable about it. Frank Miller has now been involved with two movies I've given that tag, this piece of garbage and "The Spirit", which was so awful that Eva Mendez, Scarlett Johansson and Jaime King couldn't even will me into a two-star for hotness value.

He has been poison after Sin City. Poison.

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Because it, like the first one, is full of cliche stories. The thing going for the first, which I liked, was the "cinematic experience", because there was nothing original in the story line. So, my guess, is seen the original experience already, this is just a copy. It certainly tried to be "film noir", but that is really, really dated- a generation or two passe, just done more artistically.

PS. "A Dame to Die For" seems like the stereotypical comic- you know the one that many deride it as being written by and for dweebs that never seen a woman. Dribble. Pretty poor rip-off of Double Indemnity. I can only imagine the only reason anyone would want to be in it and utter the complete crap dialogue is they thought it was cutting edge, cutting edge for the 50s. I assume the books are equally terrible. Just grab a script from the 50s put modern day sex in it, and it's a big deal.

it was terrible